London Mining Network
Holding the mining industry to account
Report on the Rio Tinto plc AGM, London, 11 April 2018
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network
A recording of the whole AGM is available at https://edge.media-server.com/m6/p/q6qsz3ho (registration is necessary). An analysis of the …
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The Grasberg copper-gold mine in West Papua
By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network
The most shocking words spoken at this morning’s Rio Tinto AGM were these: “I am not sure I can answer that …
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House at the resettled community of Tamaquito
By Emma Banks, University of Tennessee, currently resident in La Guajira
On November 29, three delegates from the German Company EnBW, which buys coal from Colombia including …
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By Richard Solly, LMN Co-ordinator, with assistance from Andrew Hickman, Andy Whitmore, Paul Robson and Richard Harkinson
This year’s BHP Billiton plc AGM was held on Thursday 20 October at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference …
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There was a great deal of media coverage of this year’s BHP Billiton AGM in London, including plenty of quotes from LMN’s visitors from Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia.
In advance of the AGM, the New …
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An official report into the Samarco Tailings Dam failure in Brazil has now been released. This is a full and comprehensive investigation that needs detailed explanation, undertaken by a highly credible panel. Samarco is jointly …
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Last week, LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign organised a vigil outside the Colombian Embassy in London in support of our friends in La Guajira, Colombia, who are struggling to stop Cerrejon Coal (owned by …
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Unarmed villagers resist eviction at Tabaco, 9 August 2001
For the last sixteen years, I have been working in support of communities in the province of La Guajira, Colombia, being displaced by the massive Cerrejon …
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workers at the Vedanta-controlled Bodai-Daldali bauxite mine in Chhattisgarh, India
By Richard Solly, London Mining Network Co-ordinator, with assistance from Richard Harkinson and Rumana Hashem
Warning: there follows a pretty exhaustive account of the 2016 …
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The Cerrejón coal mine
By Richard Solly, London Mining Network Co-ordinator
Last month, I represented LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign on a delegation organised by US organisation Witness for Peace to La Guajira in …
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Destruction of a house to make way for Cerrejon mine expansion. Photo: Diana Salazar
Bob Burton and Richard Solly
A few months ago the Colombian Mining Association (CMA) joined the London-based World Coal Association (WCA), …
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